At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. It seemed like a plot from the old Divorce Court TV show. But no, it wasn’t a battle of the spouses over the failure of a marriage, it was a battle of a hospital and a medical group over what appears to be the failure of an exclusive […]
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As humans, we’re primed by evolutionary forces to fear the loss of something much more than we value an equivalent gain. That’s why many medical group leaders are concerned that market and other pressures will have a significantly negative impact on their group. From competition from hospital-aligned physicians, to the failure of the hospital, to […]
This is important for hospital-based physician groups with exclusive contracts, as well as for office-based practices with hospital contracts.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector, including, notably, in connection with monopolization through mergers in the market for physician services. In 2017, the FTC challenged the proposed merger of physician group Mid Dakota Clinic into Sanford Health, an […]
You can’t build a bigger future for your medical group’s business if all you do is play is defense. You have to play offense, too: you must take affirmative steps to grow your business. But just the same, the failure to play defense can be fatal. There’s a lesson in defense to be learned from […]
Across the county in nearly every industry, large companies are laying off full time workers and are turning to staffing companies which, in turn hire what amount to temps, many on a part time basis.
The unfettered growth of hosptial-centric medicine, usually touted as bringing “better care,” “enhanced safety,” and “more efficiency,” often brings less caring care, hospital acquired infections, and . . . control over the market with its “efficient” byproduct, higher prices. The growth of hospital systems can be seen as a reaction to the fact that procedures […]
It’s getting darker. Well, not actually. But tomorrow, Monday, August 21, 2017, it will. And, not just at night, but because of a total solar eclipse. Darkness. Where fear lurks in nursery tales, vampire movies, and film noir. Pretend. Yet darkness of another sort, of the refusal to look, of the refusal to see, of […]
